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Author: shalithasuranga

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+title: Neutralinojs 2023 Roadmap
+authors: [shalithasuranga]
+slug: neutralinojs-2023-roadmap
+tags: [neutralinojs, javascript, framework, roadmap]
+image: media/cover-neutralinojs-roadmap-2023.png
+---
+
+![](media/cover-neutralinojs-roadmap-2023.png)
+
+
+We typically publish a set of goals for the upcoming year and let you know the current year's achievements at
+the end of every year via a blog post. For example, we published
+the ["Neutralinojs 2022 Roadmap"](./2021-12-27-neutralinojs-2022-roadmap.md) article on December 2021.
+Similarly, we are publishing this article for the year 2023. We are happy to announce that we completed
+most of the planned goals in 2022. We made Neutralinojs stable and competitive by implementing
+DevOps principles and doing various performance, architectural, security, and source-code-level enhancements.
+
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+
+## Achievements in 2022
+
+Look at the following summary of things we achieved in 2022:
+
+- Delivered new APIs for accessing the system clipboard, spawning processes, retrieving system information,
+adding custom backend code execution, and handling event-based file streams. 
+- Added new functions for the filesystem, os, and storage modules
+- Implemented a protection mechanism to prevent loading the app outside of the webview by using an OTT
+(One-Time Token). Read more about Neutralinojs framework security from
+the [official documentation](https://neutralino.js.org/docs/contributing/security).
+- Started generating official nightly releases with the [ReleaseZri](https://github.com/codezri/releasezri)
+project. This DevOps improvement helps developers experiment with the latest framework features.
+- Generated official ARM binaries for Linux (armhf and arm64) and macOS (arm64 for M1 or higher)
+- Developed the [BuildZri](https://github.com/codezri/buildzri) open-source project as the build automation
+tool for compiling the Neutralinojs C++ codebase
+- Improved the codebase quality and fixed various bugs to make Neutralinojs stable for developing
+production-level apps
+- Mentored one project idea with the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2022 program
+- Added partial ESM (ECMA Script Modules) support (Now, developers
+[can](https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralino.js/issues/58#issuecomment-1353276382) load the Neutralinojs
+client as an ES module)
+
+## Community
+
+Behind every successful open-source project, there is indeed a collaborative developer community.
+The Neutralinojs developer community tends to suggest ideas, submit patches, report bugs, and create
+developer resources.
+
+See the following community statistics:
+
+- 6.2k+ stargazers on GitHub (32% increment)
+- 885 members on Discord (more than seven times growth)
+- 82k+ neu CLI downloads (more than four times growth)
+
+The well-known [JavaScript Weekly](https://javascriptweekly.com/) newsletter supports us in reaching a
+wider developer audience by featuring our framework releases in their popular newsletter.
+Many developers build awesome lightweight apps with Neutralinojs, create content for Neutralinojs on
+various web platforms, and learn open-source development with Neutralinojs. 
+
+Thanks so much, everyone, for being with the Neutralinojs community in 2022. We hope to see more members
+in the community in 2023!
+
+## Transparency
+
+Neutralinojs is a free and pure open-source project - you can use it for free, inspect the source, and
+customize it if you want. It doesn't come with premium features that are unlockable via monetary payments.
+Every framework user gets the same set of features. Also, we don't embed telemetry services in the framework
+core or developer tools for generating usage statistics. Our primary goal is to offer a better lightweight,
+cross-platform development experience for free under the pure open-source model. We motivate every
+Neutralinojs developer to learn framework internals via detailed official documentation and tutorial videos.
+
+We wrote [this article](https://neutralino.js.org/docs/contributing/about-neutralinojs) and explained
+Neutralinojs's history, the current development, and the financial side. We explain everything
+(even revenue sources) about Neutralinojs to motivate you to build your own open-source
+projects and help developers!
+
+## Sponsors
+
+Sponsors and financial donators motivate us to continue development activities productively and consistently.
+MacStadium and Microsoft Azure sponsor Neutralinojs by offering cloud computing infrastructure for free.
+Seven patrons support the author via [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/shalithasuranga) and motivate him
+to allocate more time to maintain the project. In 2022, one contributor donated $29 via
+[OpenCollective](https://opencollective.com/neutralinojs) too!
+
+We like to thank all sponsors and donators for helping us.
+
+## Roadmap 2023
+
+During the 2020–2022 period, we did many code refactorings to make the framework stable and production-ready.
+Now, developers use Neutralinojs to build their apps, and some developers experiment with the extension
+system and the inbuilt auto-updater tool. Now, the entire framework is stable&mdash;we won't change native APIs
+with the upcoming releases. So, you can build Neutralinojs apps without worrying about future framework
+upgrades and time-consuming version-to-version migrations.
+
+In past years, we mainly focused on stabilizing the framework core via various enhancements.
+Our current primary goal is to make Neutralinojs fully featured by adding APIs that other cross-platform
+frameworks have.
+
+Here are some crucial goals planned for 2023:
+
+- Offer a native network request API to overcome the CORS issue that needs turning off webview
+security layers
+- Enable multi-threaded native API calls and improve the framework performance further
+- Release the Neutralinojs builder project with [GSoC 2023](https://github.com/neutralinojs/gsoc2023)
+- Fix the window positioning issue on the Windows platform by refactoring the existing webview library version
+- Add the Unicode support for the Windows framework version
+- Delivering features requested by the developer community
+
+Apart from the above milestones, we'll add more APIs, features, and developer tooling to compete with
+other cross-platform frameworks since our framework core is now stable.
+
+Join our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/cybpp4guTJ) and become a member of our developer community.
+Consider making a monetary donation if you would like to support the project financially.
+Consider making a code contribution and becoming a project committer if you wish to donate your
+time to Neutralinojs.
+
+Send us a pull request to [this GitHub repository](https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs.github.io)
+if you like to list your app on the [Neutralinojs apps page](https://neutralino.js.org/apps/).
+
+Thanks for reading.
+
+Build an app with Neutralinojs - feel the difference - and join with our journey.
+